38 U.S.C. § 2068 — Mental health consultations
submitted 4 years ago by Pub. L. 117-328 to r/title-38-VETERANS-BENEFITS · 97 words · no verdicts yet
Within two weeks after a covered veteran enters a Homeless Programs Office program, the Secretary must offer a mental-health consultation. The consultation assesses the veteran’s health needs and care options, and applies when case management did not offer or provide one.
(a) In General. No later than two weeks after a veteran* described in subsection (b) enters a program run by the Department’s Homeless Programs Office, the Secretary* must offer that veteran a mental-health consultation to assess the veteran’s health needs and care options. (b) Veteran Described. This means a veteran whom the program’s case-management services did not offer or provide a mental-health consultation.
Not later than two weeks after the date on which a veteran* described in subsection (b) enters into a program administered by the Homeless Programs Office of the Department*, the Secretary* shall offer the veteran a mental health consultation to assess the health needs of, and care options for, the veteran.
A veteran described in this subsection is a veteran to whom a mental health consultation is not offered or provided through the case management services of the program of the Homeless Programs Office into which the veteran enters.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. V, title IV, § 404(b)(1), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5513.)
- 2022Enacted · Pub. L. 117-328 · 136 Stat. 5513
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